Well, for one thing, some people, old time geeks, mostly, have a list.
On the list are two items:
boycott Microsoft. Everybody knows the reason.
boycot Apple. The closed-source hardware company.
There are often additional items on the list as well. I don't know why there are so many Anything-but-Microsoft people who hang out in this forum these days. It's almost as if the Macintosh ghetto is being fumigated and they needed a place to hang out. But geez, I hope they air out that ghetto soon and those people leave.
Well, hell. I have Office 2000 installed on my Toshiba T2105 laptop. That's a 486DX-2 50 machine. It works 'plenty well' too. For the limited things I need Office on a laptop for.
However, I'm not gonna claim there aren't some serious compromises. And I'm not going to claim it isn't slow as molasses, either.
So be honest. 'Good enough' is what you meant, not 'fast'. Correct?
So you're saying you threw away all the defective 20MB HDDs and you kept the bad floppies?
Also, it's a good bet the 10 year old hard drives(you don't really have all those 20 year old HDDs, do you? It must be cool to have some of the biggest 8" hard drives ever made!) were built one HELL of a lot more reliably than current hard drives. The imparative for the HD manufacturers now is to make them cheap and high capacity. If they last too long, too much money was spent producing them....
in your autoexec.bat file if you run a Windows machine. Its especially important if you run a dual boot system likely to be infested with the LILO boot sector virus.
If you're running a dual boot system right now and in the Linux system, I recommend you mount your Windows partition and edit your autoexec.bat file right now to make this correction.
You'll thank yourself when on the next boot up of your system you've gotten rid of a viral infection that was likely tying up a big chunk of your hard drive space. Make sure you then run fdisk in interative mode to delete big blocks of worthless partition space that the viral infection was filling up on your drive (called 'non-DOS partitions' by Fdisk) and turn it back into useful space for your Windows system.
Just like BSD model itself, even the licensing is a fractured mess.
Wow.
What a statement. Well, if you think the BSD model is a fractured mess, you'd better stay away from the big swamp of incompatible versions, non-standard/etc structures, and in general the totally fractured mess that is Linux.
Hell, any kludge that two kids throw together can be considered a 'Linux distro.'
All valid suggestions, and I am sure there are a half dozen Spammers working on implementing it now.
How many spammers are now going to try mimicing Schneier's newsletter? Seems like a cool idea for me if you're a spammer and want to confuse the filters. Imitate an uber-kewl hacker's newsletter, something leetos will DEMAND the spam filters let through. Can the spam imitating the comp.risk newsletter be far off?
Yeah, but if we give the Sherpas technology and advanced communciation, they will want more. They will cease to be low-cost third-world servants for liberal young college types from the US to visit and patronize. It's already happening in places like Mexico, where college hippies used to be able to travel across the country for pennies. Is nothing sacred? Is no culture of people going to be kept quaint and backward for the enjoyment of idealistic young American tourists?
Enough with the goofy 'let's try something completley different' proposals. They would be a train wreck to implement, and require constitutional amendments to pass.
It's fine for intellectual discussion. Maybe that's all this is.
The press love new 'electronic voting' methods because it gets them results fast FAST FAST. Which is important, if they are to sell advertising between the reports of incoming votes.
I don't think there should be an information blackout right after a polling, but perhaps all reporting should be local. Your local results are reported in the local newspaper (because it is important for people to know their vote counts, and to verify so.) National totals are tabulated and reported after exactly x number of days (yes, they can then have their hoopala at that x day point). All auditing and uncertainty can be corrected, because the slow, low-tech paper record of the vote is out there and ready for review at any point.
Preliminary results are part of the problem. There should be no preliminary results. Journalists who insist on hassling people exiting the polls should be heavily fined.
What's the big deal if it takes a few days for the totals to be compiled?
So if I say that for me 'right' is luring strangers into the shed out behind my house and skinning them to make lampshades, that's 'right'?
No. 'Right and wrong' are values a society holds in common. That's almost the complete opposite of 'personal.' It can be relative to the society that a person is a member of, but it's not personal.
Do you mean a voting booth with an electric typewriter in it?
Otherwise, I don't know what you mean. 'Look, a shiny piece of paper with who I voted for on it' says the voter. Meanwhile, what went out over the wire, nobody is certain....
I am tired of 'get out the vote' drives that are essentially 'political activists' rousing all the senior citizens out of the high rise to vote for the candidate they've engineered to win.
Voting shouldn't be difficult or inconvenient, but 'get out the vote' efforts need to end. We need less politics and more common sense in government. Less activism. Government should be small, boring, and have limited power over us.
The drivers would exist without 'the hype.' Because they're mostly user created, and let's face it, people who buy a shrink-wrap boxed Red Hat are not the same people who hack driver code.
The 'great explosion of distros' could also be called 'the rising tower of babel'. So damned many distros out there. I prefer the same old Slackware I was using in 1994.
'Books about Linux.' Hmmm. I like the O'Reilly books, and the ones I like the best aren't even specifically about Linux. They're UNIX books.
Almost nothing I like about Linux wouldn't exist without marketing. A lot of it would probably be actually more focused and powerful without all the marketing hype and the way it distracts people off to 'oooooh pretty' features.
To be fair, they probably would harass everyone who has a greenhouse that's completely enclosed in a lightproof building with artificial lights. Why would anybody growing roses do it in a room with totally opaque walls using electric light? Now, if they discriminated by only harassing people with that particular heat signature who also had Grateful Dead bumper stickers, that might be considered unfair and discriminatory.
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Honda doesn't put Honda-brand tires on their Civic line of vehicles.
You might want to check for yourself.
On the list are two items:
boycott Microsoft. Everybody knows the reason.
boycot Apple. The closed-source hardware company.
There are often additional items on the list as well. I don't know why there are so many Anything-but-Microsoft people who hang out in this forum these days. It's almost as if the Macintosh ghetto is being fumigated and they needed a place to hang out. But geez, I hope they air out that ghetto soon and those people leave.
I don't understand. Where is the thread where we rant about how Apple won't sell an iBook without MacOS bundled?
I am not going to use MacOS. Why should I pay for something I am not going to use? It should cost LESS without MacOS installed on it.
Also, someone please fork off the SparcBook rant, okay?
Well, hell. I have Office 2000 installed on my Toshiba T2105 laptop. That's a 486DX-2 50 machine. It works 'plenty well' too. For the limited things I need Office on a laptop for.
However, I'm not gonna claim there aren't some serious compromises. And I'm not going to claim it isn't slow as molasses, either.
So be honest. 'Good enough' is what you meant, not 'fast'. Correct?
So you're saying you threw away all the defective 20MB HDDs and you kept the bad floppies?
Also, it's a good bet the 10 year old hard drives(you don't really have all those 20 year old HDDs, do you? It must be cool to have some of the biggest 8" hard drives ever made!) were built one HELL of a lot more reliably than current hard drives. The imparative for the HD manufacturers now is to make them cheap and high capacity. If they last too long, too much money was spent producing them....
It's good practice to have the line
/mbr
C:\windows\command\fdisk
in your autoexec.bat file if you run a Windows machine. Its especially important if you run a dual boot system likely to be infested with the LILO boot sector virus.
If you're running a dual boot system right now and in the Linux system, I recommend you mount your Windows partition and edit your autoexec.bat file right now to make this correction.
You'll thank yourself when on the next boot up of your system you've gotten rid of a viral infection that was likely tying up a big chunk of your hard drive space. Make sure you then run fdisk in interative mode to delete big blocks of worthless partition space that the viral infection was filling up on your drive (called 'non-DOS partitions' by Fdisk) and turn it back into useful space for your Windows system.
But, if you had such a worldview, then how are you different than Microsoft....
Haven't been here long, then, have you?
This is like a Wobblie rally. We are supposed to be One Big Union under GPL, all for one, one for all.
Don't be un-mutual (reference to 'The Prisoner'). Haven't you heard the Free Software Song?
"You'll be free, hackers, you'll be free."
Just like BSD model itself, even the licensing is a fractured mess.
/etc structures, and in general the totally fractured mess that is Linux.
Wow.
What a statement. Well, if you think the BSD model is a fractured mess, you'd better stay away from the big swamp of incompatible versions, non-standard
Hell, any kludge that two kids throw together can be considered a 'Linux distro.'
The more interesting problem:
How many more thousands of hours will a 5.25" diskette last than a 120GB drive?
You're telling us you don't store your .mp3 songlists on 5-1/4" floppy diskettes?
Get with the program, dude. Retro is kool!
'Unless you are a real criminal and belong in prison, you will not find yourself arrested.'
'Unless you are a henious criminal and deserve to die, you will not find yourself on death row.'
All valid suggestions, and I am sure there are a half dozen Spammers working on implementing it now.
How many spammers are now going to try mimicing Schneier's newsletter? Seems like a cool idea for me if you're a spammer and want to confuse the filters. Imitate an uber-kewl hacker's newsletter, something leetos will DEMAND the spam filters let through. Can the spam imitating the comp.risk newsletter be far off?
Yeah, but if we give the Sherpas technology and advanced communciation, they will want more. They will cease to be low-cost third-world servants for liberal young college types from the US to visit and patronize. It's already happening in places like Mexico, where college hippies used to be able to travel across the country for pennies. Is nothing sacred? Is no culture of people going to be kept quaint and backward for the enjoyment of idealistic young American tourists?
Lots of companies have computers on the desk that don't have sound cards. There are still few business applications where a sound card is necessary.
Just thought you should know.
Please.
Enough with the goofy 'let's try something completley different' proposals. They would be a train wreck to implement, and require constitutional amendments to pass.
It's fine for intellectual discussion. Maybe that's all this is.
The press love new 'electronic voting' methods because it gets them results fast FAST FAST. Which is important, if they are to sell advertising between the reports of incoming votes.
I don't think there should be an information blackout right after a polling, but perhaps all reporting should be local. Your local results are reported in the local newspaper (because it is important for people to know their vote counts, and to verify so.) National totals are tabulated and reported after exactly x number of days (yes, they can then have their hoopala at that x day point). All auditing and uncertainty can be corrected, because the slow, low-tech paper record of the vote is out there and ready for review at any point.
There's an easier solution to the problem of uneven Federal money distribution.
Collect less taxes and disperse less Federal money.
That's the solution to 'unfair distribution of Federal funding' and it's staring you right in the eye.
The name of this country is The United States. It is a confederation of State governments.
Sure, closed source stops a bit of that. So does the absence of schematic diagrams. And PAL equations for any PAL chips on the logic board.
Have you pored over the BIOS code in your machine lately? How about the microcode in your CPU?
(get over it)
Preliminary results are part of the problem. There should be no preliminary results. Journalists who insist on hassling people exiting the polls should be heavily fined.
What's the big deal if it takes a few days for the totals to be compiled?
Right and wrong are personal?
So if I say that for me 'right' is luring strangers into the shed out behind my house and skinning them to make lampshades, that's 'right'?
No. 'Right and wrong' are values a society holds in common. That's almost the complete opposite of 'personal.' It can be relative to the society that a person is a member of, but it's not personal.
Do you mean a voting booth with an electric typewriter in it?
Otherwise, I don't know what you mean. 'Look, a shiny piece of paper with who I voted for on it' says the voter. Meanwhile, what went out over the wire, nobody is certain....
Hear, hear!
I am tired of 'get out the vote' drives that are essentially 'political activists' rousing all the senior citizens out of the high rise to vote for the candidate they've engineered to win.
Voting shouldn't be difficult or inconvenient, but 'get out the vote' efforts need to end. We need less politics and more common sense in government. Less activism. Government should be small, boring, and have limited power over us.
The drivers would exist without 'the hype.' Because they're mostly user created, and let's face it, people who buy a shrink-wrap boxed Red Hat are not the same people who hack driver code.
The 'great explosion of distros' could also be called 'the rising tower of babel'. So damned many distros out there. I prefer the same old Slackware I was using in 1994.
'Books about Linux.' Hmmm. I like the O'Reilly books, and the ones I like the best aren't even specifically about Linux. They're UNIX books.
Almost nothing I like about Linux wouldn't exist without marketing. A lot of it would probably be actually more focused and powerful without all the marketing hype and the way it distracts people off to 'oooooh pretty' features.
To be fair, they probably would harass everyone who has a greenhouse that's completely enclosed in a lightproof building with artificial lights. Why would anybody growing roses do it in a room with totally opaque walls using electric light? Now, if they discriminated by only harassing people with that particular heat signature who also had Grateful Dead bumper stickers, that might be considered unfair and discriminatory.
Well, you just took the whole concept of 'political discourse' down a notch.
I know, I know. The old discredited 'the personal is political' crap from the 70's.